Chabad To Open in Uganda

30th Annual Conference Ends

by Staff Writer

November 20, 2017

Five days were not enough to cover all the concerns facing Chabad’s 5000 representatives serving Jewish communities around the world. But the 30th annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim, which ended Sunday, seemed to provide everyone with something.

Workshops included topics as diverse as community building and social media strategies. Themes addressed the role of leadership and problem solving. Some sessions were more specific: lockdown training, lessons in creating fundraising strategies and assisting teens and families in crisis.

Chabad Lubavitch representatives serve communities on six continents. Their reach goes as far as Vietnam and Ghana, as highlighted at last night’s banquet, and now, as was formally announced at the Conference, Uganda, in eastern Africa will be served by its own Chabad center. Rabbi Moishe and Yocheved Raskin will be establishing Chabad in the capital city of Kampala.

The announcement following the opening of other centers this year including a new midwestern presence in Ames, Iowa, and the first for countries such as Montenegro and Curacao, brought the number of countries served by Chabad to a round 100.

Inclusion seems to be the buzzword of the year. But what does it mean?
This February the Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative has partnered with Friendship Circle International to get this word into the limelight.

Since 2008, Rabbi Osher and Mussy Litzman, South Korea’s first permanent rabbi, have been the address for all things Jewish to the 500-1000 Jews living in Seoul at any given time. To Jewish diplomats, English teachers, businessmen, students and US army families living in South Korea’s capital, the Chabad House is a “Jewish Embassy.”

Chabad Young Professionals of Melbourne celebrated their two-year milestone this week with a gala at the River Room in the chic Crown Towers downtown. Members of CYP were joined by friends, supporters, local rabbis and community leaders as they marked another successful year of a fledgling organization with their first annual gala.

Rabbi Berel and Rochy Slavaticki and newborn son Mendel are moving to the town of Durham, home to the University of New Hampshire. UNH, a liberal arts college and public research university, comprises of 15,000 students. 600 of them are Jewish.

But there’s been a growing interest among a diverse group of local Jews, particularly young families, to cultivate a Jewish community in Reykjavik. And a recent tourism boom has been bringing millions of visitors (outnumbering the country’s population of seven to one) to experience its northern lights, its volcanoes and lava fields. It seems a good time, say Avi and Mushky Feldman, to be setting down roots in the land of fire and ice.

Rabbi Berel and Rochy Slavaticki and newborn son Mendel are moving to the town of Durham, home to the University of New Hampshire. UNH, a liberal arts college and public research university, comprises of 15,000 students. 600 of them are Jewish.

Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, is facing a drought so severe that city officials are planning to turn off all water on April 12. Sarah Wineberg doesn’t remember the last time her kids had a normal bath. They’ve been bathing in a bucket, one after the next, using the same water.

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